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From All Movie Guide: The founder of Hong Kong's massively successful Golden Harvest Films and the man responsible for introducing the international community to the staggering skills of a young martial arts star named Bruce Lee, producer Raymond Chow's longstanding career has yielded some of the most memorable martial arts films in cinema history. Born in Hong Kong in 1929, at age 13 Chow began studying abroad at St. Johns University. Returning to his native home after graduating with a B.A. in Journalism, the future producer would next take a position with the English-language Hong Kong Standard before joining the city's Voice of America office in 1951. The expansion of Shaw Brothers studios caught the attention of a curious Chow in 1959, and it wasn't long before the young journalist found himself in the midst of a career change. Starting low on the totem pole for Shaw Brothers, Chow would quickly work his way becoming the flourishing studio's head of production for the following decade. Undaunted by the cutbacks in film production during the tumultuous 1960s and confident in his knowledge of the film industry, Chow decided to go against the grain and pick up the slack from the cutbacks by founding his own production company, parting ways with Shaw Brothers in 1970 to found Golden Harvest.